Examples

The railway bridges over both these streams had been blown up by dynamite: some of the stone piers were shattered, and some of the iron girders hurled all atwist into the watery depths beneath; here and there culverts had similarly been destroyed, and at many a point the very rails had been torn by explosives till they looked like a pair of upturned arms imploring help from heaven.

Although actually both Baucus and HR 3200 have in fact proposed making “cuts”* to Medicare otherwise there wouldn’t be any real “savings” in either plan but that’s not what Humana claimed in the flyer which got Baucus’ panties in atwist.